Common Build Infrastructure

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Common Build Infrastructure

The Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) project is a proposed open source project under the Technology
Project.

This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the
Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and
scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse
community. Please send all feedback to the
Eclipse Proposals
Forum.

Background

The Eclipse Foundation hosts a large number of projects. Historically, each project has implemented their
own build system from scratch with mixed results. We believe collaboration around a common set of software
production technologies such as build, testing, and similar can have a positive effect on Eclipse projects.

Scope

The Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) project maintains and develops software
production technology common to multiple Eclipse projects.

Goals:

Make it really easy to build Eclipse projects

Make it easy to automate build and testing tasks

Make it really easy to sign jar files and other artifacts

Make it easier for new projects to set up their build

Continually improve the quality of builds at Eclipse

It is important to differentiate between common and universal. CBI does not abstract all
build systems or rarely needed features. If something is used by one and only one project, it is
unlikley to be included as part of CBI.

Once multiple projects are using a given technology something, then it may become a candidate for
inclusion into CBI if doing so brings benefit to CBI and projects using it.

The following components are examples of technology that is within the scope of CBI:

Jar signing service

Operating system signing service

Common Maven plugins used for Eclipse builds

Common Eclipse license files

Description

The Eclipse Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) combines technologies and practices
for building Eclipse Software.

Why Eclipse?

Given the Eclipse-focused background and scope, creating CBI as a project itself hosted at
the Eclipse Foundation is very natural. CBI makes setting up and maintaining project builds easier.
Creating the CBI project allows people to contribute to CBI on equal footing and hopefully will
assist in growing a community for CBI over time.

Initial Contribution

CBI code is licensed under a mix of EPL and EDL code. For example:

Data, notably the pom.xml files are EDL

Code is EPL e.g. the jar signer

The headers in each file denote the license.

Copyright for the CBI project's initial contribution is held by the Eclipse Foundation, SAP, IBM, and Red Hat.

The initial contribution is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation already at the following URL:

Legal Issues

We do not believe there are any legal issues lurking in CBI.

Committers

The following individuals are proposed as initial committers to the project:

Thanh Ha, Eclipse Foundation

Thanh is a committer on the CBI project where he has made significant contributions over
the past year. He will be developing and maintaining: the signing service; the operating system
signing service; and Maven plugins.

Paul Webster, IBM

Paul Webster is a power user and periodic contributor to CBI. He was a significant contributor to the efforts to deploy CBI for
The Eclipse Platform project.

Krzysztof Daniel, Red Hat

Krzysztof is a power user and periodic contributor to CBI. He was a significant contributor to the efforts to deploy CBI for
The Eclipse Platform project and the Fedora Linux distrubution's Eclipse build.

David Williams, IBM

David is a power user and periodic contributor to CBI. He was a significant contributor to the efforts to deploy CBI for
The Eclipse Platform project.

Denis Roy, Eclipse Foundation

Denis was the original author of the signing service and plans to continue developing it.

We welcome additional committers and contributions.

Mentors

The following Architecture Council members will mentor this
project:

Gunnar Wagenknecht

John Arthorne

Interested Parties

The following individuals, organisations, companies and projects have
expressed interest in this project: